Well thats my problem! The laptop is taking that long to boot up. And I don't mean from windows I mean from the moment the power button is pressed untill I get to a windows welcome screen!

I did a reformat of the drive to wipe it off and start fresh and thats the results. For a few hours I was recieving a "An Error Occured please press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart" message, but that has since gone... for now!

I haven't got a clue whats going on or how to fix it! ANY ideas will be strongly welcomed!